Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9850
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    ‘Batrachia’ [frogs and toads]

    Date
    1899
    Creator
    Adolf Giltsch (1852 - 1911, German) , Lithographer
    After
    Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    42553
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 357mm
    width (print): 279mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological study of ten batrachians, set within a landscape with trees:

    1 Notodelphys ovifera; 2 Hyla meridionalis; 3 Hyla tuberculosa; 4 Amphignathodon gunther; 5 Rhacophorus pardalis; 6 Hylodes lineatus; 7 Limnodytes erythraeus; 8 Ceratobatrachus guntheri; 9 Breviceps mossambicus; 10 Rana pipiens.

    Plate 68 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).

    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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